Alan Stern
Alan Stern
Sol Alan Sternis an American engineer and planetary scientist. He is the principal investigator of the New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Chief Scientist at Moon Express...
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We're going to be like kids in a candy shop when we arrive at a system like this.
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We'll have to divide our attention four ways instead of two,
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Even though it's not as sensitive or as high resolution as the Hubble, we're able to look at the inner planets close to the sun and map wide regions of the sky very quickly.
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We thank them for being here with us.
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The United States is going to go down in history for the initial reconnaissance of the planets.
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This is the capstone of the missions to the planets that NASA has led since the 1960s.
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This is the capstone of the initial reconnaissance of the planets, the first mission to the last planet.
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Some people think its 20 years off and some people think its five years off. No one really knows when Pluto's atmosphere will snow out and collapse.
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This is a whole new chapter in the Pluto story.
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This is, in a very real sense, the capstone of the initial reconnaissance of the planets that the United States has led for the world since the 1960s.
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I don't believe we should classify planetary objects by location. We should use properties of the objects as a guide.
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Pluto is just the brightest of the many objects in the Kuiper Belt. It's a fossil relic of the formation of our solar system.
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Some of Clyde's ashes are on their way to Pluto today.
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Some models say the collapse can be very sudden. It can happen in a matter of months.